In my 25 years as an FBI special agent and (now retired) head of the bureau's counterintelligence,
I learned the value of predictive analysis. Following the 9/11
terrorist attacks, the FBI transitioned from an investigative agency
adept at investigating what happened after the fact to an intelligence agency capable of forecasting and preventing harm from happening in the future.
Trump is clearly still sensitive about the 2016 election, and especially about concerns that he may not have beaten former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton fairly. He therefore has a special interest in undermining accusations of Russian meddling, something he has done since entering the Oval Office. What better way to do this than to flip the script? He didn't have an advantage; in fact, he was the victim
As other commentators have pointed out,
attempting this bait and switch would likely involve efforts to censure,
discipline or even criminally charge current and former government
officials, such as former CIA Director John Brennan, fired FBI Director
James Comey, former national security adviser Susan Rice, former
National Intelligence Director James Clapper and perhaps even Obama and
Biden. During his Monday news conference in the Rose Garden, a reporter
asked Trump what crime he might accuse Obama of committing.
Trump responded: "Obamagate, it's been going on for a long time. It's
been going on from before I got elected, and it's a disgrace that it
happened. You look at, now, all of this information that's being
released, and from what I understand, that's only the beginning."
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